Even Funnier!

Today has been great. Before noon, I walked, inside our trailer, over eight miles with Leslie and I reached my daily Nike+ goal and had walked over 11,000 steps. I've done it three days in a row and I plan to do it everyday until I lose ten pounds.

I spent most of the afternoon doing paperwork, returning phone calls and e-mails, not fun, but it must be done. Then I took a break and did some more writing on my upcoming third novella. It's about a long distance trail ride that Carol and I go on, along with some zany and weird characters.

After I finished writing I went outside and cut some of Tony's gorgeous flowers to replace the wilted, smelly Cowpen Daisies and they look fabulous, in the blue vase and they don't stink.

I know that Mercury in retrograde is upon us and this MIR time, for some reason, it is affecting me in a great way—thank goodness. My novellas are suddenly flying out of The Cabin and in the past two weeks I have had to reorder more copies of Part I and Part II, to keep up with the demand and for my upcoming book signing at the Highpoint Resort, in December. 

This morning while I was visiting with Kinky, I told him about this strange novella phenomenon suddenly causing my books to sell like hot cakes and having to reprint more and he was thrilled for me. When we talked about my book signing, he suggested that I also sell my second book Meanwhile Back At The Rescue Ranch: The Dog Days of Cousin Nancy too. 

I have sold out of that book several times and I have not restocked it for over a year, because I forgot about it. So late this afternoon, after crunching some numbers, I made the decision to go ahead and reprint it, too and then I placed my order. 

Laugh out loud, by next week, my office will be full of my books for me to go out and sell and my Undepressable Press checking account will be depressing to look at for a little while. I hope that my new luck with book sales continues, even though we still have to deal with MIR until Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. Otherwise, my friends and family will all be receiving second copies of my books for Christmas and their upcoming birthdays, etc. And, if they remind me that they have already read and have signed copies of my books, I'll be prepared to say, "I know, but this one is even funnier."

Y'all have a great evening!

Lorri & Jeff Really Rock In California and Texas!

This afternoon after lunch Tony and I went to Kerrville to run a few errands. Our first stop was at Walmart so we could buy a a small, plastic wading pool. We bought a pretty blue one and fortunately it fit inside Buttermilk.

We didn't buy the wading pool for Tone and me to use. We bought it so we can use it tomorrow when we dip our dogs for fleas and ticks, because the last time we dipped our dogs in the small horse trough it nearly broke Ben's and Tony's backs from lifting up our dogs.

Our next  stop was at Copies Plus to pick up Tony's new postcards. Trisha and Marcie greeted us the minute we walked inside even though they were busy waiting on customers. Once their customers were gone Trish gave T. his postcards and they were absolutely beautiful to say the least! After a fun, but short visit with Trisha and Marcie because they had work to do—we went to Wolfmueller's Books to say hi to Sandy and Jon.

As always we had a fun visit with the Wolfmuellers. At one point in our conversation while I was telling them that Kinky and I were doing two booksignings on June 4th and 5th, Jon went online to kinky's  cigar site and started reading aloud to us about the upcoming booksignings. Then their bookstore was suddenly flooded with customers so we left and came home.

Early this evening we invited our good friends Carol and James to come over for a visit. After howdies and hugs the four of us went into Outer Space and caught up with each others news and of course there was plenty of laughing.

After Carol told us about her dear friend Lorri P., out in California who T. and I also think the world of, buying ten copies of my book for her to read and to give to her friends and then being very disappointed and hurt when they arrived because I had not sent her a note or signed any of my books. "That's when I realized that she had bought your first book! Not your new one!" Carol said followed by a round of laughter. Before Carol and James left I loaned them my movies: "Crazy Heart," "The Blind Side" and "Seabiscuit."

Tonight's Shout-Out is for our friend Lorri. "Lorri, you are so sweet. Thank you so much for buying those books from the University of Texas Press. I hope you enjoy it. My new book was published by (me) Undepressable Press ( UP) not UT and I hope that you will buy a copy of Meanwhile Back At The Rescue Ranch: The Dog Days of Cousin Nancy because you and Jeff are in it and I promise to sign it and include a note. Please come see us when y'all are in Texas and ask Jeff to please his bring his guitar with him. Lorri P. & Jeff S. Really Rock in California and Texas!

Y'all have a great evening!